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Biden criticizes Trump successful BBC interrogation
In erstwhile President Joe Biden's archetypal interrogation since leaving office, helium slammed President Trump's overseas policy, describing Mr. Trump's actions toward Russia arsenic "modern-day appeasement" and saying "what the hell's going connected here?" astir what helium called Mr. Trump's "confiscation" argumentation regarding Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal and renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
"What the hell's going connected here? What president ever talks similar that? That's not who we are," Biden told CBS News spouse web BBC News. "We're astir freedom, democracy, opportunity, not astir confiscation."
Mr. Trump met Tuesday with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose Liberal Party's triumph successful the April elections appeared to beryllium influenced by Mr. Trump's stance. At Tuesday's Oval Office meeting, Carney said Canada "won't beryllium for sale, ever," portion Mr. Trump mused, "never accidental never."
Mr. Trump has taken to referring to Canada arsenic the 51st state, though he said successful an interrogation past week that "I don't see" utilizing subject unit successful Canada.
But, helium said successful an interview with NBC News' "Meet the Press" that "something could hap with Greenland, I'll beryllium honest," adding that "we request that for nationalist and planetary security."
Even earlier Mr. Trump took bureau successful January, helium talked astir acquiring the Panama Canal and Greenland, and helium has ramped up his rhetoric connected Greenland successful caller weeks, declining to regularisation retired subject force. Greenland is simply a semi-autonomous authorities successful the Kingdom of Denmark, though determination is simply a U.S. subject base, Mr. Trump's comments person not been good received there.
Biden spoke to BBC News up of the 80th day of V-E Day, oregon the time that the Nazis surrendered successful Europe. While successful office, Biden had pledged enactment to assistance Ukraine aft the Russian invasion, adjacent linking World War II and Ukraine.
But Mr. Trump has taken a antithetic attack toward Russia successful the conflict, and has blasted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arsenic being ungrateful portion besides signing a deal with Ukraine for minerals.
Biden called the Trump administration's argumentation "modern-day appeasement" to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Listen to what Putin said erstwhile helium talked astir going from Kyiv into Ukraine, and wherefore helium can't basal the information that the Russian dictatorship that helium runs, that the Soviet Union has collapsed, and anybody thinks he's going to halt is this foolish," Biden said.
Biden continued that helium "found it benignant of beneath America the mode that took place," arsenic good arsenic Mr. Trump's actions renaming the Gulf of Mexico arsenic the Gulf of America. Mr. Trump signed an executive bid connected his archetypal day successful bureau to rename the Gulf, and has since blocked Associated Press reporters from covering definite Oval Office events for refusing to comply with that order.
Mr. Trump has agelong been suspicious of the confederation with Europe formed aft World War II, saying successful March that the continent has been "very, precise atrocious for us."
Biden said forming NATO is "one of the smartest things we did," and called it a "grave concern" that the confederation could beryllium ending.
"I deliberation it would alteration the modern past of the satellite that occurs," Biden said. "Look, we are not the indispensable nation, but we're the lone federation successful a presumption to person the capableness to bring radical together, to pb the world, and different you're going to person China and the erstwhile Soviet Union, Russia stepping out."
In effect to Biden's comments, White House spokesperson Steven Cheung posted connected societal media that Biden is simply a "complete disgrace to this state and the bureau helium occupied."
Democrats person fumed and struggled to reorganize themselves aft Mr. Trump's victory, with overmuch of the fury going toward Biden for staying successful the 2024 contention for excessively long. But Biden said Wednesday that helium didn't deliberation it made a difference, adding that "we near astatine a clip erstwhile we had a bully candidate."
"Things moved truthful rapidly that it made it hard to locomotion distant to get and it was a, it was a hard decision," Biden said.
But erstwhile asked if helium had immoderate regrets astir dropping retired of the race, Biden said it was the "right decision."
Biden had mostly stayed retired of nationalist presumption aft Mr. Trump's inauguration, though helium spoke astatine a Chicago league successful April and attended Pope Francis' ceremonial past week.
Caroline Linton is an subordinate managing exertion connected the governmental squad for CBSNews.com. She has antecedently written for The Daily Beast, Newsweek and amNewYork.
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